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SB Splits Saturday Doubleheader vs. 10/7 LSU
4/27/2019 11:34:00 PM | Softball
Baylor gets first win over the Tigers since April 15, 1981
By Jerry Hill
Baylor Bear Insider
Glenn Moore had to admit that he wasn't "extremely confident" going into the nightcap of Saturday night's doubleheader after the way his Baylor softball team dropped the opener.
"You've got a team that's pretty much spent all their energy the whole weekend, and you come up short," he said. "It's hard to ask them to keep responding."
But, respond they did.
Bouncing back from a 4-2 loss, the Lady Bears (18-29) used freshman Kassidy Krupit's two-run homer in the first and Nicky Dawson's two-run double in the second to knock off 10th-ranked LSU, 5-1, to snap a five-game losing streak and beat a top-10 team for the third time this year.
"We're playing for the love of the game right now and could throw in the towel easily against a team like this and just say we don't belong," said Moore, who coached two-plus years at LSU before coming to Baylor in 2000. "I think we saw the team we were capable of being. We were just too late becoming that team."
Facing a team that came in hitting .329 with 64 homers and averaging almost seven runs per game, Baylor's pitching held the Tigers (40-12) to just five runs on 13 hits in the three-game series.
Sophomore Sidney Holman (10-18), who was "the best she's been at least since the first weekend," took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of Saturday's first game and was trying to hold a 2-0 lead. Freshman Josi Bowers drilled a home run to right-center in the second inning, and then the Lady Bears added another run in the third on a pair of singles and a wild pitch.
In a bizarre sequence, Holman walked 9-hole hitter Savannah Stewart leading off the sixth and then made an errant throw to second base trying to get the lead runner when she fielded Aliyah Andrews' sac bunt. The throw got past centerfielder Madi O'Neal and rolled all the way to the outfield wall, with Stewart and the speedy Andrews both coming around to score.
Shelbi Sunseri blasted a homer to break up the no-hitter, then the Tigers tacked on another run in the seventh when Stewart tripled and scored on an Amanda Sanchez RBI single.
Although Holman suffered the loss, Moore said he is "excited about what she can do" after striking out 10 batters and pitching that well "against that lineup."
"As you know, that's a great lineup," Moore said. "Ten strikeouts against that lineup, that's pretty big."
If their heads were down, even in the least, it certainly didn't show at the start of Saturday's nightcap.
Nicky Dawson, a transfer from LSU, led off the bottom of the first with a walk and scored on Krupit's 10thhomer of the season, a shot down the left-field line that clanged off the foul pole.
"Honestly, I swung and I knew it was a hard hit, because it was very solid," Krupit said. "But, I was looking, and I was like, 'Don't go foul.' It hit the (foul pole), and I was like, 'What does that mean? I was just running anyway though because I knew it was going to go out wherever it was hit. I just got the feeling."
The Lady Bears stretched the lead to 5-0 in the third, when Dawson had a two-run, opposite-field double to left and scored on Tyler Trott's sac fly.
Regan Green (3-5) picked up the win in the circle, tossing four scoreless innings and giving up two hits with one walk and one strikeout. Krupit gave up a solo homer to Amanda Sanchez in the sixth inning, but gave up just one other hit in 3.0 innings.
"I just thought it was a weekend of a great atmosphere here, the crowd was really in it, and we gave them something to cheer for," Moore said, "and finally pulled out a victory."
Baylor hosts UTSA for its last home game at 6 p.m. Sunday and then closes out the season with a pair of games at Texas next weekend.
"I think what we're seeing here is some momentum going into the offseason," Moore said. "At the staff meeting the other day, that's what I told the staff that's what I hoped for is that we can find a way to motivate this team to let them know that they belong. We've got Texas coming up after UTSA, so we've got a chance to prove that we belong at this level again.
"With a very young team and everybody returning, I think it will be invaluable to us in the offseason to motivate us to work hard and be the team we were just a year ago."
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas – Baylor (18-29) got its first win over LSU in 38 years when the Lady Bears topped the Tigers, 5-1, in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader. BU led the first game on Saturday through the first five innings before LSU took the lead in the top of the sixth.
GAME 1: 10/7 LSU 4, BAYLOR 2
The first game on Saturday was a scoreless affair until the third inning when Josie Bower crushed her first career home run off a light pole beyond the right field wall. Bower became the sixth different Lady Bear to hit a home run this season and pushed BU's total to 20 home runs this season.
An inning later, Goose McGlaun and Taylor Ellis led things off with back-to-back singles. With Avalos in to pinch run for McGlaun, they moved over to second and third when Madi O'Neal laid down a sacrifice bunt. Avalos came home shortly after to score on a wild pitch.
On the defensive side of things, Sidney Holman was going to work. She had eight strikeouts through the first three innings. Holman finished with 10 strikeouts, one shy of her career best that was set in 2017 when she played at ACU. Her previous season high was nine strikeouts against North Texas back in February. Her no-hitter was broken up in the sixth inning.
GAME 2: BAYLOR 5, 10/7 LSU 1
After dropping a closely contested, hard-fought game just 30 minutes prior, the Lady Bears came out with determination for the series finale.
BU retired LSU in order the first three innings. Regan Green got the start and held the Tigers scoreless off only two hits through four innings of work.
While the defense held LSU off the board, the Baylor offense went to work quickly. Nicky Dawson led the game off with a walk. With a runner on and one out, Kassidy Krupit launched her 10th home run of the season off the left field foul pole to give the Lady Bears a 2-0 lead.
An inning later, the Baylor offense continued to put runs on the board. Ana Watson, who leads the team in doubles, hit her 10th double of the year to lead off the bottom of the second. Tyler Trott then got her third hit of the season to put two runners on.
After a sacrifice bunt moved them over to second and third, Nicky Dawson dropped a double into shallow left field for a double to score two runs. Dawson then scored off a sacrifice fly by Lou Gilbert. Dawson now has four multi-RBI games this year, while Krupit has eight.
Ana Watson led the Lady Bears at the plate with a 3-for-3 showing and a run scored.
Krupit came on in relief for Green in the fifth inning and gave up only one run off two hits through three innings of work.
HIGHLIGHTS
STAT OF THE GAME
0 – Number of Lady Bears who were alive the last time BU topped LSU.
TOP QUOTES
Glenn Moore on the weekend…
"We fought, we went toe-to-toe with them the entire weekend. Sid's got a no-hitter in the sixth inning. She has a no-hitter when it's 2-2. We're up 2-0 with a no-hitter in the sixth inning against a top-10 team, and you can't close it out. But, that's kind of been the story of this year. For us to come out, I wasn't extremely confident for that third game. You've got a team that's pretty much spent all their energy, high energy, the whole weekend, and you come up short, it's hard to ask them to keep responding. And then they fight back and they put up five runs for you, it was kind of exciting to see. Too late for the season, but we're playing for the love of the game right now and could throw in the towel easily against a team like this and just say we don't belong. But, I think we saw the team we were capable of being, we were just too late becoming that team."
Kassidy Krupit on the win…
""It felt really good. It gave us the confidence we needed and it's really just putting a great 4th half of the season. We got nothing to lose so might as well play as hard as we can and we proved that this weekend. Obviously we didn't get all three wins but that last one was very significant to us as a team and a program and we know what we need to do to do that again."
Nicky Dawson on the win…
"First of all, it was amazing. I'm not even sure how I really feel right now because we are a little short in the win column, so we loved the win against a top 10 team. It pretty indescribable at this point, but we are just trying to stay loose and keep fighting, keep playing, and continue to put some things together. When we were up to bat this weekend, we were able to go out there and just have fun."
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor hosts UTSA in the final home game of the 2019 season at 6 p.m. Tuesday vs. UTSA.
Baylor Bear Insider
Glenn Moore had to admit that he wasn't "extremely confident" going into the nightcap of Saturday night's doubleheader after the way his Baylor softball team dropped the opener.
"You've got a team that's pretty much spent all their energy the whole weekend, and you come up short," he said. "It's hard to ask them to keep responding."
But, respond they did.
Bouncing back from a 4-2 loss, the Lady Bears (18-29) used freshman Kassidy Krupit's two-run homer in the first and Nicky Dawson's two-run double in the second to knock off 10th-ranked LSU, 5-1, to snap a five-game losing streak and beat a top-10 team for the third time this year.
"We're playing for the love of the game right now and could throw in the towel easily against a team like this and just say we don't belong," said Moore, who coached two-plus years at LSU before coming to Baylor in 2000. "I think we saw the team we were capable of being. We were just too late becoming that team."
Facing a team that came in hitting .329 with 64 homers and averaging almost seven runs per game, Baylor's pitching held the Tigers (40-12) to just five runs on 13 hits in the three-game series.
Sophomore Sidney Holman (10-18), who was "the best she's been at least since the first weekend," took a no-hitter into the sixth inning of Saturday's first game and was trying to hold a 2-0 lead. Freshman Josi Bowers drilled a home run to right-center in the second inning, and then the Lady Bears added another run in the third on a pair of singles and a wild pitch.
In a bizarre sequence, Holman walked 9-hole hitter Savannah Stewart leading off the sixth and then made an errant throw to second base trying to get the lead runner when she fielded Aliyah Andrews' sac bunt. The throw got past centerfielder Madi O'Neal and rolled all the way to the outfield wall, with Stewart and the speedy Andrews both coming around to score.
Shelbi Sunseri blasted a homer to break up the no-hitter, then the Tigers tacked on another run in the seventh when Stewart tripled and scored on an Amanda Sanchez RBI single.
Although Holman suffered the loss, Moore said he is "excited about what she can do" after striking out 10 batters and pitching that well "against that lineup."
"As you know, that's a great lineup," Moore said. "Ten strikeouts against that lineup, that's pretty big."
If their heads were down, even in the least, it certainly didn't show at the start of Saturday's nightcap.
Nicky Dawson, a transfer from LSU, led off the bottom of the first with a walk and scored on Krupit's 10thhomer of the season, a shot down the left-field line that clanged off the foul pole.
"Honestly, I swung and I knew it was a hard hit, because it was very solid," Krupit said. "But, I was looking, and I was like, 'Don't go foul.' It hit the (foul pole), and I was like, 'What does that mean? I was just running anyway though because I knew it was going to go out wherever it was hit. I just got the feeling."
The Lady Bears stretched the lead to 5-0 in the third, when Dawson had a two-run, opposite-field double to left and scored on Tyler Trott's sac fly.
Regan Green (3-5) picked up the win in the circle, tossing four scoreless innings and giving up two hits with one walk and one strikeout. Krupit gave up a solo homer to Amanda Sanchez in the sixth inning, but gave up just one other hit in 3.0 innings.
"I just thought it was a weekend of a great atmosphere here, the crowd was really in it, and we gave them something to cheer for," Moore said, "and finally pulled out a victory."
Baylor hosts UTSA for its last home game at 6 p.m. Sunday and then closes out the season with a pair of games at Texas next weekend.
"I think what we're seeing here is some momentum going into the offseason," Moore said. "At the staff meeting the other day, that's what I told the staff that's what I hoped for is that we can find a way to motivate this team to let them know that they belong. We've got Texas coming up after UTSA, so we've got a chance to prove that we belong at this level again.
"With a very young team and everybody returning, I think it will be invaluable to us in the offseason to motivate us to work hard and be the team we were just a year ago."
THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas – Baylor (18-29) got its first win over LSU in 38 years when the Lady Bears topped the Tigers, 5-1, in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader. BU led the first game on Saturday through the first five innings before LSU took the lead in the top of the sixth.
GAME 1: 10/7 LSU 4, BAYLOR 2
The first game on Saturday was a scoreless affair until the third inning when Josie Bower crushed her first career home run off a light pole beyond the right field wall. Bower became the sixth different Lady Bear to hit a home run this season and pushed BU's total to 20 home runs this season.
An inning later, Goose McGlaun and Taylor Ellis led things off with back-to-back singles. With Avalos in to pinch run for McGlaun, they moved over to second and third when Madi O'Neal laid down a sacrifice bunt. Avalos came home shortly after to score on a wild pitch.
On the defensive side of things, Sidney Holman was going to work. She had eight strikeouts through the first three innings. Holman finished with 10 strikeouts, one shy of her career best that was set in 2017 when she played at ACU. Her previous season high was nine strikeouts against North Texas back in February. Her no-hitter was broken up in the sixth inning.
GAME 2: BAYLOR 5, 10/7 LSU 1
After dropping a closely contested, hard-fought game just 30 minutes prior, the Lady Bears came out with determination for the series finale.
BU retired LSU in order the first three innings. Regan Green got the start and held the Tigers scoreless off only two hits through four innings of work.
While the defense held LSU off the board, the Baylor offense went to work quickly. Nicky Dawson led the game off with a walk. With a runner on and one out, Kassidy Krupit launched her 10th home run of the season off the left field foul pole to give the Lady Bears a 2-0 lead.
An inning later, the Baylor offense continued to put runs on the board. Ana Watson, who leads the team in doubles, hit her 10th double of the year to lead off the bottom of the second. Tyler Trott then got her third hit of the season to put two runners on.
After a sacrifice bunt moved them over to second and third, Nicky Dawson dropped a double into shallow left field for a double to score two runs. Dawson then scored off a sacrifice fly by Lou Gilbert. Dawson now has four multi-RBI games this year, while Krupit has eight.
Ana Watson led the Lady Bears at the plate with a 3-for-3 showing and a run scored.
Krupit came on in relief for Green in the fifth inning and gave up only one run off two hits through three innings of work.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Sidney Holman was dealing as she recorded 10 strikeouts against the Tigers. It marked the first time LSU struck out 10 times in a game all season.
- Josie Bower hit her first home run of the season, becoming the sixth different Lady Bear to hit a home run this season.
- Baylor finished with eight hits in the series finale, marking the most since BU had 10 hits against Texas Tech on April 14.
- Kassidy Krupit hit her 10th home run of the season. She's the first freshman since Goose McGlaun in 2017 to record double-digit home runs as a freshman.
- Ana Watson leads the Lady Bears with 10 doubles this season.
- Watson now has eight multi-hit games this season after going 3-for-3 in the series finale.
- Twelve of Baylor's 19 hits this weekend came from freshmen.
- For the first time this season, LSU was held to five or fewer hits in three consecutive games.
STAT OF THE GAME
0 – Number of Lady Bears who were alive the last time BU topped LSU.
TOP QUOTES
Glenn Moore on the weekend…
"We fought, we went toe-to-toe with them the entire weekend. Sid's got a no-hitter in the sixth inning. She has a no-hitter when it's 2-2. We're up 2-0 with a no-hitter in the sixth inning against a top-10 team, and you can't close it out. But, that's kind of been the story of this year. For us to come out, I wasn't extremely confident for that third game. You've got a team that's pretty much spent all their energy, high energy, the whole weekend, and you come up short, it's hard to ask them to keep responding. And then they fight back and they put up five runs for you, it was kind of exciting to see. Too late for the season, but we're playing for the love of the game right now and could throw in the towel easily against a team like this and just say we don't belong. But, I think we saw the team we were capable of being, we were just too late becoming that team."
Kassidy Krupit on the win…
""It felt really good. It gave us the confidence we needed and it's really just putting a great 4th half of the season. We got nothing to lose so might as well play as hard as we can and we proved that this weekend. Obviously we didn't get all three wins but that last one was very significant to us as a team and a program and we know what we need to do to do that again."
Nicky Dawson on the win…
"First of all, it was amazing. I'm not even sure how I really feel right now because we are a little short in the win column, so we loved the win against a top 10 team. It pretty indescribable at this point, but we are just trying to stay loose and keep fighting, keep playing, and continue to put some things together. When we were up to bat this weekend, we were able to go out there and just have fun."
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor hosts UTSA in the final home game of the 2019 season at 6 p.m. Tuesday vs. UTSA.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Sunseri (12-5)
L: Holman-Mansell, Sidney (10-18)
Batting:
3B: Stewart 1
HR: Sunseri 1
RBI: A. Sanchez 1 ; Sunseri 1
SH: Al. Andrews 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Al. Andrews 1 ; Sunseri 1 ; Stewart 2
SB: Al. Andrews 1
Batting:
HR: Bower, Josie 1
RBI: Bower, Josie 1
SH: Ellis, Taylor 1 ; O'Neal, Madi 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Avalos, Alyssa 1 ; Bower, Josie 1
SB: Watson, Ana 1
Game Leaders
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